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give me a guide to-morrow ; being rainy I stop willingly. 

 Dugumbe is said to purpose going down the river to Kana- 

 gumbe Kiver to build on the land Kanagumbe, which is a 

 loop formed by the river, and is large. He is believed to 

 possess great power of divination, even of killing unfaithful 

 women. 



22nd March. — I am detained another day by the sickness 

 of one of the party. Very cold rain yesterday from the north- 

 west. I hope to go to-morrow towards the Lakoni, or great 

 market of this region. 



23rd March. — Left Kasongo, who gave me a goat and a 

 guide. The country is gently undulating, showing green 

 slopes fringed with wood, with grass from four to six feet. 

 We reached Katenga's, about five miles off. There are 

 many villages, and people passed us carrying loads of 

 provisions, and cassava, from the chitoka or market. 



2Ath March. — Great rain in the night and morning, and 

 sickness of the men prevented our march. 



25th March. — Went to Mazimwe, 7^ miles off. 



26th March. — Went four miles and crossed the Kabwi- 

 maji; then a mile beyond Kahenibai, which flows into the 

 Kunda, and it into the Lualaba ; the country is open, and 

 low hills appear in the north. We met a party from the 

 traders at Kasenga, chiefly Matereka's people under Salem 

 and Syde bin Sultan; they had eighty-two captives, and 

 say they fought ten days to secure them and two of the 

 Malongwana, and two of the Banyamwezi. They had about 

 twenty tusks, and carried one of their men who broke his leg 

 in fighting ; we shall be safe only when past the bloodshed 

 and murder. 



21th March. — We went along a ridge of land overhanging 

 a fine valley of denudation, with well-cultivated hills in the 

 distance (N.), where Hassani's feat of bloodshed was per- 

 formed. There are many villages on the ridge, some rather 

 T-umbledown ones, which always indicate some misrule. Our 



